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Salerno Wins Independent Weekly Poetry Contest

Chris Salerno, a long-time English Department Lecturer, has been named the winner of the 2009 Independent Weekly Poetry contest for his poem, "Whirl," which will appear in the Feb. 25th edition of the Independent. The prize carries a $500 award and the opportunity for Chris to read from his work at a reception/reading scheduled for March 18th.

LCW Major wins Dell Magazine Award

Undergraduate LCW major Joshua Eure has been named the winner of the 2009 Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing (formerly the Isaac Asimov Award), sponsored by Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, and supported by the Humanities Institute at the University of South Florida and the School of Mass Communications at the University of South Florida.

The $500 award goes to the best unpublished and unsold science fiction or fantasy short story submitted by a full-time undergraduate college student. The winner is invited to the IAFA annual Conference on the Fantastic in mid-March in Orlando, FL, and the winning story will be considered for publication in either Asimov's science fiction magazine or in the on-line version of the magazine.

Josh's story"We Were Real," was written for John Kessel's ENG 488 class in the spring of 2008. In addition, Maggie Morgan, a student in Kessel's ENG 388 class in the fall of 2008, placed third in the competition.